Like many Chicago Cubs managers who tried and failed to end the team’s legendary championship drought, Lee Elia didn’t last too long in his job. Elia managed 285 games for the Cubs from 1982-83, going 127-158 before general manager Dallas Green fired him during the ’83 season.

Elia’s professional baseball career spanned more than 50 years as a player, coach, manager and executive, but his name will forever be linked to his 1983 tirade directed at Cubs fans that eventually got him fired.

Lee Elia, who is perhaps best known for his rant directed at Cubs fans critical of his team in 1983, died Wednesday.

After a brief playing career in Chicago that consisted of 95 games, the Philadelphia native found fame as a coach and manager; his 1983 rant remains legendary.

Former Chicago Cubs and Philadelphia Phillies manager Lee Elia died Wednesday, the Phillies announced. He was 87 years old. Elia managed each of his two teams for two seasons, the Cubs from 1982 to 1983 and the Phillies from 1987 to 1988.

Lee Elia, who managed the Cubs and Phillies in a pro baseball career that lasted more than 50 years as a coach and player, died Wednesday at the age of 87.

Cubs manager Craig Counsell held rookie Matt Shaw out of the starting lineup on Wednesday, giving the young third baseman a day to focus on his pregame work without worrying too much about the night’s game against the Twins.

Lee Elia, known for managing the Cubs and Phillies during a decades-long career (and for an epic, expletive-filled postgame rant), has died.

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